IN DENIAL: PolitiFact Refuses to Budge on Mamdani's Communist Talk

July 5th, 2025 6:32 AM

Last week, we reported on how PolitiFact threw a "False" flag at President Trump for calling New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani a "communist lunatic," despite contrary evidence, like his 2020 tweet in support of a communist mayor in India, suggesting that's the kind of mayor New York needs. On Thursday, PolitiFact doubled down on its ruling, dismissing Mamdani's clearly Marxist…

PolitiFact Rushes In to Flag Trump for Calling Mamdani a 'Communist'

June 26th, 2025 10:20 PM

PolitiFact exists to defend Democrats against Republican attacks. In 2020, they threw their "Pants On Fire" label at Sen. David Perdue for describing his opponent Jon Ossoff as a "socialist." So it's unsurprising that PolitiFact would object to Donald Trump and other conservatives online for mocking New York's new Democrat nominee for mayor, Zohran Mamdani, as a "communist."

Column: Democrats Can Say 'Hitler' All Day Long, Forget 'Fact Checks'

June 20th, 2025 6:00 AM

The “No Kings” rally against President Trump on June 14 featured several angry speeches from Democrats. Mediaite had this story: “Eric Swalwell ‘Trump Is America’s Hitler’ Remark at Rally Sparks Viral Outrage.” That gaseous D.C. speech was easily ignored by PolitiFact and those “independent fact-checkers.”

Why Would a 'Fact Checker' Use the Term 'Gender-Affirming Care'?

June 8th, 2025 6:30 AM

One easy test of whether a media outlet is truly "fact-based" is the claims and lingo of transgender advocates. That goes double for "independent fact-checkers." If you call hormone blockers or amputation surgeries "gender-affirming care," then you are using the fact-mangling rhetoric of activists, not caring for facts. An article by PolitiFact writer Grace Abels used "gender-affirming care"…

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PolitiFact's 'Truth-O-Meter' TILTS Dramatically Against Republicans

June 5th, 2025 9:00 AM

NewsBusters analysts reviewed PolitiFact articles from January to May 2025 that evaluated a named politician or public official with a “Truth-O-Meter” ruling, and their tilted version of the "truth" shows that PolitiFact is not nonpartisan. Republicans were tagged as "Mostly False" or worse more than 85 percent of the time, while Democrats landed on the False side only 39 percent of the time…

PolitiFact Torches Straw Man To Label Johnson 'False' On SNAP Reforms

May 30th, 2025 1:11 PM

On Sunday, Speaker Mike Johnson gave CBS’s Margaret Brennan what many considered to be a much-needed education on the House’s Big Beautiful Bill’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program reforms. However, on Thursday, PolitiFact’s Loreben Tuquero asserted that it was Johnson who was the “false” one, although she had to torch a straw man to do so.

PolitiFact Flags Trump as 'FALSE' on Foreign Students at Harvard

May 29th, 2025 2:12 PM

PolitiFact threw another "False" flag on their mountain of 1,095 Donald Trump "fact checks" on Wednesday. The dispute was whether Harvard gave the Department of Homeland Security the information they requested on their foreign students. They found an expert in Georgia immigration lawyer Charles Kuck, who (surprise) is a serious donor to Democrats, including Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Stacey…

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CNN: Obamacare Was Conservative, Tea Party Opposed It Due To Racism

May 27th, 2025 12:03 PM

On Sunday morning, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria re-aired an April 6 primetime special with the not-so-subtle title of The War on Government, which purported to be a history lesson on the conservative movement’s frustration with Republican politicians’ unwillingness or inability to shrink the government going back to President Dwight Eisenhower, which has culminated in DOGE’s blunt-force…

PolitiFact Declines To Give Schumer a False Label For False DOGE Claim

May 23rd, 2025 12:04 PM

If you argue that fact-checking websites like PolitiFact should not be the final arbiter of what is true because they fact-check Republicans way more than Democrats, the response you are likely to get is because they deserve it. However, a Thursday article on Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer undermines that point because the article makes it clear that Schumer was wrong to blame the…

PolitiFact Shows Trump Is Right On Due Process, Still Rates Him False

May 9th, 2025 12:50 PM

PolitiFact’s relationship with Facebook might be over, but just in case Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg feels the need to change his mind one day, a Thursday article from Maria Ramirez Uribe proved why it should stay that way. Uribe rated President Trump “false” for saying “there’s a different standard” for due process for illegal immigrants despite admitting he was, in fact, correct.

The First 100 Days for the Trump-Hating Left

May 1st, 2025 5:30 PM

President Donald Trump’s approval declined after he announced broad tariffs not just on China but on trading partners who, in his opinion, take advantage of America with their tariffs on American goods. But how quickly those rooting for Trump’s failure forget the mood of the country during the Biden administration. In September 2024, NBC News wrote: “Two in 3 voters say the country is on the ‘…

PolitiFact Uses Pope Francis's Death To Defend Its Existence

April 24th, 2025 1:45 PM

PolitiFact editor-in-chief Katie Sanders is still decrying Meta Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to break up with the fact-checking companies, so, on Thursday, she wrote an article using the death of Pope Francis to argue he supported their work.

Column: Cory Booker's Blab-a-Thon Underlines 'Fact Checker' TILT

April 9th, 2025 6:11 AM

On April 7, Facebook pulled the plug on the censorship of “independent fact checkers,” replacing it with a “Community Notes” approach, like Elon Musk’s X uses. No one was more upset than the censorious left-wing “fact” police. But PolitiFact's treatment of Sen. Cory Booker's "historic" 25-hour speech on the Senate floor proves they're often in the tank for Democrats.

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PolitiFact Pads Its PBS Pals By Flagging MTG as 'FALSE' on Drag Queens

April 5th, 2025 7:22 PM

PolitiFact -- which has a partnership with PBS -- avoided "fact checking" the PBS and NPR CEOs claiming to Congress they were nonpartisan.  Instead of choosing the most obvious lie, PolitiFact threw a “False” rating at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for a statement that was more of an opinion than a factual statement. She said "they now have drag queen story time instead of good old ‘Sesame…